This film or show by Luc Besson has come up 3 times on Lex Fridman. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-09-15 and the most recent from 2022-05-23. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan, Fraud, Prison, and Sociopathy | Lex Fridman Podcast #288
“you also told me that leon the professional is one of your favorite films it's also the reason you named your dog leon”— guest
The guest here is Sarma Melngailis: Chef and restaurateur behind NYC raw-vegan restaurant Pure Food and Wine and the One Lucky Duck brand. She became the subject of Netflix's Bad Vegan after pleading guilty to fraud and serving four months at Rikers Island. Sarma Melngailis tells Lex Fridman her side of the Bad Vegan story, framing the fraud and prison as the result of psychological capture by a manipulator.
David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast #282
“one of my favorite movies is leon the professional oh i love that movie what is that why is that so exciting”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is David Buss: Evolutionary psychologist at UT Austin and one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, known for research on human mate selection and sex differences. Author of The Evolution of Desire, The Dangerous Passion, and the textbook Evolutionary Psychology. Evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains the science of human mating, sex differences, jealousy, and violence with Lex Fridman.
Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124
“one of my favorite movies is Leon or the professional with Jean Reno Gary Oldman and the brilliant young Natalie Portman”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Stephen Wolfram: Computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist; founder/CEO of Wolfram Research (Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Language) and author of A New Kind of Science and the Wolfram Physics Project. Stephen Wolfram explains how simple computational rules on hypergraphs could generate space, time, relativity, and quantum mechanics as a Theory of Everything.
